The clients of a Kansas City-area fitness studio put together a flash mob Thursday to help rally around the owner as she fights cancer.

Hoddy Potter, despite undergoing chemotherapy treatments for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, still makes it a priority to come into her studio at Leawood's Park Place to run the business and teach her fitness classes.

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"She's teaching and running the business and running errands and taking care of her kids and just being supermom," said Bar Method regional manager Stacy Foxworthy.

"It's not where I was expecting to be when I was 33 years old," Potter said. "I have three small kids and I run two Bar Method studios and I'm super-healthy and fit, and so it sort of threw me, as it throws anyone, for a loop."

She thought that family members were bringing her to Park Place for a pedicure on Thursday afternoon, but instead found clients and employees performing a dance routine for her.

"I couldn't help but bust out the John Travolta moves right away," Potter said.

Potter's friends and family said they want to help her in her fight any way they can.

"One of the things that Hoddy loves more than anything is to dance," said Bar Method instructor Erin Fishman. "She's always dancing and she's got some pretty good dance moves, so we thought it would be fun to do a dance for her. And the song is, 'The Best of My Love.' The lyrics say, 'You've got the best of my love,' because she has the best of all of our love."

Potter said it was quite a message of support.

"I just felt loved. The only thing I can liken it to is when you get married and everybody from all parts of your life -- your childhood, college, your family -- are all together in one place in a way that they'll never be in one place again," she said.

Potter's friends and family members said the flash mob had been in the works for about three weeks. Everyone practiced with a tape at home and Thursday's performance was the first time everyone did it together.

"Generally, it's me who comes around and helps people in the studio, but now the community has rallied around me and supported me in a way that's really, really amazing," she said.

She said she has two more chemotherapy treatments and then a scan to check her progress. She said she plans to fight the cancer, beat it and continue the rest of her life with her family.